Eijaliisa ahtila, studies on the ecology of drama 2017. Eijaliisa ahtila has been considered one of the leading proponents of video. In her earlier works, she dealt with the topic of unsettling human dramas at the centre of personal relationships, dealing e. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Her first conceptual works were motivated by art philosophy, by a critique of art institutions and by feminism. Courtesy of the artist and marian goodman gallery, new york, paris, london. The book was an invaluable resource for future inquiry into the writing and context of ahtilas groundbreaking work. She has often probed individual identity and the boundaries of the subject in relation to the external world. This was the first united states career survey of the pioneering artist eijaliisa ahtila finnish, born 1959.
Liisa ahtilas work is that her use of multiple screens and fragmented, multilayered, narratives of unstable subject positions and multiple assemblages of enunciation produces an embodied experience of the palpitations of time as it flows backwards. From may 12 to august 28, 2016, the guggenheim museum bilbao is proud to present the spanish premiere of eijaliisa ahtilas the annunciation the annunciation marian ilmestys, 2010. This is the world of fantasized persons and taped conversations that acclaimed finnish artist eijaliisa ahtila reveals to the viewer. Collected writings, interviews, and scripts 9781887457194. Her article can be found in a book on ahtilas work, published in. She experiments with narrative storytelling in her films and cinematic installations. To put it briefly, finland is a scandinavian society where christianor here, more precisely, lutheranethics have been adopted as part of our political system and climate of ideas. Art paper editions is also publishing his first artist book. Ahtila has been a constant pioneer in the development of multimedia art ever since her video and performance breakthrough in the 1990s. Since her first public screenings in the nineties, eijaliisa ahtila has become one of the most important video artists on the scene.
Eijaliisa ahtila is a contemporary visual artist and filmmaker. Eijaliisa ahtila is one of the leading contemporary video artists working with video, photography, sculpture and drawing. Her largescale, multichannel cinematic works create specific perceptual situations, while investigating the construction of audiovisual discourses and testing potentialities and limits of cinematic narration. Learn about the artist and see available works for sale. Eijaliisa ahtilas affective images in the house mediascape. From may 12 to august 28, 2016, the guggenheim museum bilbao is proud to present the spanish premiere of eija liisa ahtila s the annunciation the annunciation marian ilmestys, 2010. A father tells the story of himself and his life through the members of. Eijaliisa ahtila has long been considered a master of the cinematic installation form. For the finnish visual artist and filmmaker eijaliisa ahtila, this is a fifthfloor loft studio in the old kaapeli cable factory, overlooking an inlet of this watery city. Eijaliisa ahtila, artist marian goodman gallery, new york, usa 2008 production.
Eijaliisa ahtila was born in hameenlinna, finland in 1959. Consolation service follows a young finnish couple, anni and jp, as they make public their decision to divorce. Through experimental narrative storytelling techniques that explore the possibilities of narration in multiscreen installations and split screens, and the connection between short films and commercials, ahtila tells what she calls psychodramas, seeing the light in flawed relationships, failing families, the things that drive people apart and drive them insane. A tour of her very first belgian solo exhibition will reveal the evolution in her work.
Eijaliisa ahtilas affective images in the house by tarja laine. Her films, which the finnish artist calls human dramas, present characters who find themselves in an unstable environment and are dominated by their emotions. Eija liisa ahtila lahja the present, 2001 artwork info artwork title lahja the present artist name eija liisa ahtila date created 2001 classification video installation. In her earlier work, ahtila dealt with the unsettling human dramas at the centre of personal relationships, addressing family relations, mental disintegration and death.
Only a portion of sfmomas collection is currently online, and the information presented here is subject to revision. Eijaliisa ahtila by walsh, maria art monthly, issue. Moderna museet presents an exhibition featuring completely new works by eijaliisa ahtila, one of the most internationally recognised nordic contemporary artists. The cinematic image is no longer enclosed within the frame but it explodes it. In my installation works and films, i aim at approaching narratives by questioning the traditional rules of storytelling and ways of expressing with the means of the moving image. Eijaliisa ahtila is the author of the cinematic works of eija liisa ahtila 4. Eijaliisa ahtila born 1959 in hameenlinna, finland is a contemporary visual artist and filmmaker.
Narrative, chronos, aion, installation, event abstract. Eijaliisa ahtila is a video artist and photographer. Eijaliisa ahtila is a visual artist and filmmaker noted for her experimental approach to narrative storytelling. The wind 2002 by the finnish artist eijaliisa ahtila dodges this tendency by illustrating in 14 minutes a surprisingly nuanced portrait of a young woman battling mental illness. Eija liisa ahtila, studies on the ecology of drama 2017 play. Eijaliisa ahtila eijaliisa ahtilas poetic video installation presents a portraitinmotion of a giant spruce tree shifting in the wind. Moderna museet presents an exhibition featuring completely new works by eija liisa ahtila, one of the most internationally recognised nordic contemporary. Eijaliisa ahtilas work is conceptually organized around the construction of image. While in the past, she explored peoples inner lives, her more recent work is about worldviews, such as the possibility to feel empathy. Eijaliisa ahtila explores the complexities of human experience and suffering in films, projection works, and photography. Eija liisa ahtila creates within the field where the margin between video in. The narrative of eijaliisa ahtilas latest moving image installation where is where. Eijaliisa ahtila author of the cinematic works of eija.
Influenced by philosophers and feminist thinkers, ahtilas emotionally charged narratives often take on female trauma, probing ideas around. In order to make it fit into an exhibition space scaled for human viewers, the artist chose to project the image horizontally rather than vertically. Eijaliisa ahtila lahja the present, 2001 artwork info artwork title lahja the present artist name eijaliisa ahtila date created 2001 classification video installation. It includes three important moving image installations never before seen in england. Since the early 1990s, finnish artist eijaliisa ahtila has been considered a master of the splitscreen installation form. Ahtila experiments with narrative storytelling in her films and cinematic installations. Becomingalike, or imitation mimicry, becomes an instrument for the representation of a living thing. In the current media landscapein the age of the postmedium condition 1the cinematic image is no longer understood as a frame, mirror, or window to a fictional world. Therefore the design of media art net will not display correctly. Eijaliisa ahtila i do not know what meaning those people who have used the concept have given to it in the context. Moderna museet presents an exhibition featuring completely new works by eijaliisa ahtila, one of the most internationally recognised nordic contemporary.
Eijaliisa ahtila i should first say a few words about this context, this country where i grew up. In this postmedium age, artists from pierre huyghe, douglas gordon, rodney graham and doug aitken to eijaliisa ahtila and lynn hershman are combining and recombining video with a vast array of other materials digital video, film, dvd, computer art, cdroms, graphics, animation and virtual reality to form new artistic expressions. Eijaliisa ahtila is a contemporary visual artist and filmmaker, who experiments with narration in her cinematic installations and films. Eija liisa ahtilas dvd collection the cinematic works is an amazing releaseher challenging and poetic shortformat works focus on the instability of reality in the face of losing love, innocence, or ones own mind, and plays this disjuncture against the heightened or altered reality one faces when losing ones self in the cinema which in and of itself is akin to a disassociative disorder. Horizontal axis of horizon, national museum of contemporary art, seoul, south korea, may 6 may 17. Using the visual language of cinema, ahtila presents largescale installations. There is an extremely strange moment in a video by eijaliisa ahtila, currently on show at tate modern, in which a. For greatest possible comfort and full functionality you should use one of the recommended browsers. It is set in early spring in helsinki, with its frozen landscape on the cusp of thawing. Parasol unit is delighted to present a major solo exhibition by the renowned finnish film and video artist eijaliisa ahtila. The university museum of contemporary art is pleased to present the annunciation, a new work by eijaliisa ahtila, the internationally acclaimed artist from finland who is a pioneer in the development of multimedia art.
She started working with audiovisual media in the late 1980s, exploring experimental narrative storytelling techniques, including the connection between short films and commercials, and the possibilities of narration in. Behind the scenes with pipilotti rist, pour your body out 7354 cubic meters, moma duration. The work employs the human body and its mimetic capacity as a tool to present the partial imaging between different creatures. Ahtilas provocative, intensely mesmerizing movingimage installations picture what it means to be human, to experience transcendence as well as frailty, to be awed by nature, and to reason with loss. In her earlier works she has dealt with the unsettling human dramas at.
The cinematic works is a collection of five films and represents the first time eijaliisa ahtilas work has been released in the uk. Find an indepth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. She lives and works in helsinki ahtila experiments with narrative storytelling in her films and cinematic installations. How does the spatialisation of narrative alter the cinematic address of the viewer. Eijaliisa ahtila was born in 1959 in hameenlinna, finland. In her earlier works she has dealt with the unsettling human dramas at the center of personal relationships, dealing e. Eijaliisa ahtilas poetic video installation presents a portraitinmotion of a giant spruce tree shifting in the wind. Eijaliisa ahtila the annunciation marian ilmestys, 2010 threechannel projected installation, 28 min. Eijaliisa ahtila born 1959 in hameenlinna, finland is a contemporary visual artist and. Most important to her is story telling and the variation and combination of time, narration and space. Her work is conceptually organised around the construction of image, language, narrative and space. Ahtila is best known for works that concentrate on narratives in human life together with the relationships and primal emotions that underlie them. Having said that, a lot of the contemporary art i looked at, such as eijaliisa ahtilas video installation and the book of it, is very concerned with female human experience, with exploring the. Book cover for eijaliisa ahtila with a green solid background and a person.
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